How Much For Just The Planet

[Timewalker]

I hated this book so much at first, it was nearly the first Star Trek book I returned for a refund. But I gave it another chance when I was in a better mood, and realized that if I imagined myself sitting in the audience of a theatre, watching a Star Trek operetta parody, it was GREAT!

 

[David F. Weisma]

Remember those three officers in the tiny dilithium hunting ship? I wonder what ever happened to them. And if Star Trek (the corporation) decided they wanted a sequel, would John Ford have a say?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Is the USS Robert Moses named after who I think it's named after?

 

[Christopher]

Remember those three officers in the tiny dilithium hunting ship? I wonder what ever happened to them. And if Star Trek (the corporation) decided they wanted a sequel, would John Ford have a say?

John M. Ford passed away in 2006.

And Star Trek isn't a corporation, it's a franchise owned by the CBS Corporation. Ideas for novels don't come from the top corporate brass, but from the authors and editors (who are, after all, the ones who get paid to be creative).

 

[Sci]

Remember those three officers in the tiny dilithium hunting ship? I wonder what ever happened to them. And if Star Trek (the corporation) decided they wanted a sequel, would John Ford have a say?

John M. Ford passed away in 2006.

And Star Trek isn't a corporation, it's a franchise owned by the CBS Corporation. Ideas for novels don't come from the top corporate brass, but from the authors and editors (who are, after all, the ones who get paid to be creative).

Also: Even if he were alive today, John M. Ford would not have a say. Everything in every Star Trek novel is owned lock, stock, and barrel by CBS or by CBS and Paramount.

 

[nightwind1]

Remember those three officers in the tiny dilithium hunting ship? I wonder what ever happened to them. And if Star Trek (the corporation) decided they wanted a sequel, would John Ford have a say?

Well, to find out what John thinks about it, they'd have to hire a medium.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Everything in every Star Trek novel is owned lock, stock, and barrel by CBS or by CBS and Paramount.

Except the Kzin. (Larry Niven only lent them to Filmation's TAS and the LA Times Syndicate comic strip).

And the characters from "Here Come the Brides" ("Ishmael").

Well, to find out what John thinks about it, they'd have to hire a medium.

John Ford's rebellious reaction to being asked to write a follow-up to "The Final Reflection" was to pen "How Much for Just the Planet?"

So... a follow-up to that book might have been something as different again.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ford also contributed to the FASA Klingon RPG sourcebooks, which are a fascinating guide to his version of the Klingons, their culture and world. IIRC, there's even a diagram of a Klingon land vehicle, which I assume is the one from "How Much For Just the Planet"

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ford also contributed to the FASA Klingon RPG sourcebooks

And... as Michael J Dodge:

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Voyage_to_Adventure

 

[Lonemagpie]

See, this is why I'd love to sell them Planet Of The Tribbles...

A fluff piece?

A pleasant unsaleable dream I'd been having - until David Gerrold told me on Facebook if anyone was going to write such a book it'd be him.

Whether this means his deal kept the rights to the Tribbles...

 

[Christopher]

Whether this means his deal kept the rights to the Tribbles...

Probably not, because there have been a bunch of tribble stories in the Strange New Worlds anthologies and a tribble issue of IDW's Alien Spotlight comic, plus a tribble cameo in an Enterprise episode. More likely he just meant that he wanted to be the one to write it, or wanted it to be left to him out of professional courtesy. Although he doesn't seem to have any interest in writing Trek lit anymore.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Whether this means his deal kept the rights to the Tribbles...

Probably not, because there have been a bunch of tribble stories in the Strange New Worlds anthologies and a tribble issue of IDW's Alien Spotlight comic, plus a tribble cameo in an Enterprise episode. More likely he just meant that he wanted to be the one to write it, or wanted it to be left to him out of professional courtesy. Although he doesn't seem to have any interest in writing Trek lit anymore.

He's hard to read sometimes - I'm not sure whether it was just a jolly "yeah, I'd do that" or he's actually having a go at me.